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Translation please: I figured I would get away with it, and if not I just tell them I am a boy playing a boy's game, and...I"M NOT A LAWYER! I still keep the $$$ of course, but my wife(s) and my Madonnas will get what the IRS leaves behind, so what me worry. Forgiveness happens!

This was actually pretty good. He stepped up and admitted he was a user once he was caught. This puts him miles ahead of just about everyone else in baseball who used 'roids & HGH.

Also, it's quite possible he DIDN'T know exactly what he was taking. Was it stanozolol/Winstrol, or dianabol, or anadrol, or testosterone, or Primabolan, or Nandrolone, or some custom drug with a name like "the clear" or "the cream". That part of it actually sounds believable.

"And to be quite honest, I don't know exactly what substance I was guilty of using."

"You see, there were these pills just sitting on my countertop, every morning when I awoke, and I was just eating them to get rid of them, but they just kept showing up, and I just kept eating them to get rid of them, and I just couldn't resist eating them, because they were so delicious looking. So it's not my fault, because I'm naive, and kinda negligent."

It's a shame but certainly not the first or last incident...just sayin'...plus maybe an eyesore because many look to heros in sports or hollywood....looking for heroics in all the wrong places. They are people.

Baseball is a billion-dollar business. Bud Selig and the rest of it's owners and moneymen were making big bucks as steroidally bloated "supermen" were thrilling fans. So were agents and coaches and sportswriters who all saw the obvious changes in hundreds of payers, inc. in the non-superstars who might have stayed in the minors, but miraculously "discovered" their true speed and power and helped bring those agents and coaches and writers from college or the minors with them to "The Show".

We had fans openly debating this a decade ago with most saying they didn't care if it was rigged bats, souped up baseballs, or washed up old pitchers suddenly throwing in the high 90s and good for 30 starts a season or 3 innings in relief every other day. Just, as those tens of millions of fans rationalized - that records were broken or their Team won!

Other businesses have gone on with illegal drug use adding wealth to many and with connivance all through the business. Not just baseball, not just sports. Little Timmy and Juwan also have their dreams being realized, for the applicable price, by coked-out Hollywood producers and writers. Their music idols from jazz onwards rife with "worshipped in the White House and on down" - heavy drug users from heroin addicts like Ray Charles to todays lifestyle dopers.

For decades, long haul trucking and methamphetamine usage was synonymous. Many military fighters use performance-enhancing drugs.

The basic point is that with all the crushing real problems America and the world suddenly face - going after the Phelps and Rodriguez and Clemens baseball types is just a distraction. One area Congress and the media can be all self-righteous and authoritative about while everything else far more important that they don't have a clue how to fix goes in the toilet.

During the Depression, of course, the avoidant behavior locked on the pressing urgency of making comic books less salacious...and positivity learning which Hollywood starlet or leading man (rampant homosexuality and drug use covered up, of course) - was sleeping with whom..

Cedarford wrote: We had fans openly debating this a decade ago with most saying they didn't care if it was rigged bats, souped up baseballs, or washed up old pitchers suddenly throwing in the high 90s and good for 30 starts a season or 3 innings in relief every other day.

It was clear twenty years ago that some of the guys were 'roided all to Hell and gone. Looking at the A's line up with Canseco and McGuire was frightening. They were bigger than football players, and the football guys had 'roided up in the late 60s and into the 70s. They were damn near bigger than professional wrestlers! Un-freakin'-real, they were.

"And I did take a banned substance and, you know, for that I'm very sorry and deeply regretful. And although it was the culture back then and Major League Baseball overall was very - I just feel that - You know, I'm just sorry. I'm sorry for that time. I'm sorry to fans. I'm sorry for my fans in Texas."

Is he ever gonna admit the drugs he used to get himself capable of having sex with Madonna?

Cause I sure can't think of any.

Dude, you've got that wrong. The question should be, "What did Madonna put into her body to look like a tranny so that she could attract A-Rod?" (He's known for liking manish-looking 'roided-up women. As opposed to a Manish-looking woman, or a Manxwoman.)

He didn't claim he was a victim. He admitted to drug use. He just said he didn't know exactly what he took. No wonder no one apologizes for anything these days - people will just say you didn't apologize anyway. A-Rod, next time, just burn the tapes!

Does anyone know the risks associated with steroids? Is it like one chance in 10,000 of permanent damage or is it higher or lower? When you stop taking them does all the risk disappear?....I can see why professional ball players take the risk. In just about every play in football and in many plays in baseball, the player puts his career on the line. I read somewhere that a huge percentage of football linemen end up with permanently disabling injuries. Beanballs and hard slides are also hazardous to your health.....I suppose steroids are cheating, but if everyone does it, is it really cheating? I would not take steroids in order to have bigger biceps. However, if such drugs gave me a shot at winning the MVP I'm there. Competitors compete. I feel morally superior to any man who is attracted to Madonna, but it's hard to muster much indignation about this.

Steroids probably are the reason for Arnold Swartzenegger having to have heart surgery not too long ago.

I remember more than 20 years ago hearing about a high school athlete in Mississippi who dropped dead of a heart attack. It turned out that the coach was giving the kids steroids, not telling them what it was. He was prosecuted, IIRC. How often is there heart damage? Don't know. A quick check of the CDC website reveals no stats.

If anybody really thinks Alex Rodriguez has now come clean I gotta bridge they might be interested in. Jose Canseco claims Arod was into PEDs way before he signed with the Rangers, and while Canseco's clearly a scumbag he's also been proven right every step of the way.

And why was the Union warning Rodriguez about upcoming drug tests in 2004, if he'd stopped using steroids in 2003?

I'd still bet on 40% of MLB (and 98% of the NFL) being juiced right now. They're just using stuff that's not currently detectable through testing.

Drugs and baseball go together like ham and eggs. Ty Cobb loved cocaine and it was a big reason he was one of the first big investors in that new fangled soda pop Coca Cola that make good old Tyrus the richest ball player who ever lived.

Bucky Dent was also frozen in an ice flow with Steve Rodgers until he was accidentally freed by Prince Namor the Submariner. The special drugs the Army had injected into them during WWII allowed him to survive and ultimately be instrumental in defeating the two worst scourges of humanity we have ever seen: The Nazi's and the Boston Red Sox.

Celerino Sanchez was the first Mexican Player to play for the Yankees. They were worried about immigration so instead of coming in from the dugout the used to sneak him on the field in the trunk of the bull pen Datsun and hoped nobody would notice. It worked for a whole season.